McGraw Hill · Lead UX Designer · 2024 – 2025
Launching a new learning product meant coordinating engineering, technical product management, stakeholders, design systems, and visual design — five workstreams that had to move as one. I built the rituals and artifacts that kept them aligned.
Establish design as the connective leadership across a complex, multi-team product launch.
A complex product launched on timeline, and a precedent for UX-led decision-making in the organization.
Workshops that produced decisions rather than notes, technical scope managed inside product stories, and cross-team alignment that survived contact with deadlines.
I ran the workshops, use cases, and journey-mapping sessions that turned ambiguity into shared direction. The craft isn't the sticky notes — it's designing the conversation so that engineers, PMs, and stakeholders leave with the same picture and a decision they co-own.
I delivered technical designs for engineering grooming and managed technical scope directly in product stories — meaning design decisions arrived at engineering already shaped for buildability. That's how design earns trust with technical teams: by speaking their language and respecting their constraints.
Ask me about how I coordinate engineering and product without a formal mandate over either.